In both cases, the nay votes were prompted by the nominees' suspected views on segregation — both were opposed by civil-rights groups — and in Carswell's case, by a disturbing lack of qualifications.
Intelligence services have vast masses of information about people who might be dangerous because of their ethnic origins, religious beliefs, suspected views or past actions but other than locking them all up – as happened to many in Britain in during the Second World War – identifying those who pose a real danger is extremely difficult.
Jens A. Jorgensen, Brussels An ignored killer Regarding Nicholas Kristof's column, "The killer no one suspects" (Views, May 11): Having lost my 37-year old wife just two weeks ago to pneumonia, despite quality hospital attention here in Greece, I can fully appreciate the savage nature of this much ignored killer.
Cornyn, as you might suspect, views his record as an Obamacare opponent quite differently.
10 Leaving aside Golding's rather suspect views about statistical probability and the assertion that free will cannot be debated (which is demonstrably contradicted in the passage just quoted), Golding vividly illustrates a feeling that surely everyone has had, the feeling of what it is like to be free in an existential sense.
As he suspected, the view — a combination of low rooftops and neighboring apartment towers, with Queens in the distance — was spectacular.
A recall bias could be suspected in view of the study design, which would have led to underestimate a negative association.
In another study using a questionnaire-based MetS assessment similar to ours, and reporting a positive association especially in low-grade cases [ 43], selection (or classification) biases can be suspected in view of the very low MetS prevalence and of socioeconomic differences between cases and hospitalized controls.
It wasn't to his contemporaries Melville and Hawthorne, who both took a satiric and suspect view of Emerson's soul-talk.
